[A French lawyer and legislator; born in the Nièvre, February, 1783; elected to the Chamber of Deputies, 1826; opposed the ordinances which caused the revolution of 1830; member of the first cabinet of Louis Philippe; president of the Chamber, from which he retired, 1852; member of the Academy; procureur-général of France, 1857; died November, 1865.]

A sword, the hilt of which is at Rome, and the point everywhere (Une épée, dont la poignée est à Rome, et la pointe partout).

This comparison of the Jesuits which Dupin made in a legal argument in 1825 caused some sensation, but it was not original. Diderot in a letter to Mlle. Voland quoted it word for word from the Abbé Raynal, and J. B. Rousseau exhumed it from the Anti-Coton of dAubigné, a Protestant of the sixteenth century, who attributed to a Pole the saying, The Society of Jesus is a sword, the blade of which is in France, and the handle in Rome. Prince Napoleon (Jérôme) said of the same society, in a debate on the clergy in the French Assembly in 1877, Sow Jesuits, you will reap revolt (Semez du jésuite, moissonez du revolté).

When the point was raised after the revolution of July in 1830, whether Louis Philippe should take the title of Philip VII., Dupin declared in an antithetical form, which was afterwards, like many a catch-word, repeated on every conceivable occasion: The Duc dOrleans is called to the throne not because, but in spite of, his being a Bourbon (non parce que, mais quoique). Dominique de Gourgues, a Protestant gentleman, fitted out three ships at his own expense, and sailed for Florida, where the Spaniards had executed many of his co-religionists because they were heretics, although French (parce que hérétiques, quoique Français). He took two forts from the Spaniards, and executed eight hundred men, because they were assassins, although Spaniards (quoique Espagnols, parce qu assassins).

Berryer said to the President of the Chamber, in 1851, while Louis Napoleon was preparing the coup détat, Show me a little door, by which one could get into the Chamber, and bring you support in case you were attacked: Dupin replied, I am just looking for one by which I could get out.